Proverbs 30:10
Good News Translation
Never criticize servants to their master. You will be cursed and suffer for it.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not slander a servant to a master, or the servant will curse you, and you will be held guilty.

Contemporary English Version
Don't tell a slave owner something bad about one of the slaves. That slave will curse you, and you will be in trouble.

New American Bible
Do not criticize servants to their master, lest they curse you, and you have to pay the penalty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.

accuse not or hurt not with thy tongue

Proverbs 24:23 These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.

Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.

1 Samuel 22:9,10 And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. . . .

1 Samuel 24:9 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt?

1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of thy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the Lord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.

1 Samuel 30:15 And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? and he said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company. And David swore to him.

2 Samuel 16:1-4 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba the servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine. . . .

2 Samuel 19:26,27 And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me: for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame. . . .

Daniel 3:8 And presently at that very time some Chaldeans came and accused the Jews,

Daniel 6:13,24 Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his prayer. . . .

Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

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Proverbs 11:26 Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.

Proverbs 24:24 They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

2 Chronicles 24:22-24 And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it. . . .

Context
The Words of Agur
9Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God. 10Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.…
Cross References
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Ecclesiastes 7:21
But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

Proverbs 30:9
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